Currencies 1995

Currencies comprises 86 (the age of the Burnaby Art Gallery at the time of the 1996 Interventions exhibition) discs each, in groups of ten, representing the colours used in domestic setting in a particular decade. In these groups of ten they became a colour snapshot of an era. Each refers to a specific object, textile, paint colour that was used in the home during that specific period. The disks were placed on existing plate rails in the non exhibition areas of the gallery. The title addresses how colour is commodified and implicit in the commercialization of domestic space.